First they take our jobs, then they judge us; machines are officially taking over.
In collaboration with the university ETH Zurich, Blinq, a Swiss dating app has developed a website to tell you just how attractive you are, because how could that possibly go wrong? Additionally, the app also guesses your age.
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The scale ranges from Hmm... to Godlike, and according to its website, it uses scientific technology developed by the Computer Vision Laboratory at ETH Zurich such as "a face detector, convolutional neural networks for the extraction of deep features, standard support vector regression for gender, age and facial beauty," in order to determine a person's attractiveness.
But before you try this app, please follow these thoughtful words sung by the one and only Christina Aguilera: "You are beautiful no matter what they say. Words can't bring you down." Not even, "hmm."
Now of course the results were mixed, and the software has its fair share of hiccups.
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